St Mary Redcliffe Church - Education Year 2 Progress Report

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Overview Our Education Officer writes each workshop in order to enhance the learning which is taking place in the classroom. Sometimes she will be introducing a subject for the first time to the pupils; at other times she will be building on what they have already covered in school. Each workshop is therefore different, even when a teacher returns to do the same theme as the previous year. In each case she will tailor the workshop for the particular group and around the volunteers who are available to help. A volunteer teaching Year 1 pupils about Baptism. They brought a doll with them to baptise. Their workshop was called: Why is this place special? It was part of a whole topic they were doing in school about special places. Certain aspects of Christianity can be covered so much more easily in a church setting such as: explaining what communion or baptism are, for example. SMR is rich in beautiful artefacts which lend themselves to telling and explaining the stories in the Bible. The church is also well blessed with objects which help the Education Officer to explain the church’s context in the city of Bristol. Pupils from Year 1 learning about the symbolism in a Communion Service. The Education Project uses members of the congregation and other Christians as volunteers to help with the workshops. 3
Progress April 2016 brings to a close the second year of the Education Work at St Mary Redcliffe Church. During this year the Education Officer has built on the contacts from the first year of the project and has been pleased that nearly all the schools who came in the first year booked to return in the second year. She was also delighted to work with some new schools. Some of the themes from last year were the same but some completely new workshops were tackled. In the second year of the project there were 21 organised events where school groups have come into the church to take part in a workshop or to have a talk and a tour. Adding to this the groups which booked with the Education Officer to visit Treefest, means that SMR had over a thousand children and young people attending organised events at the church as a result of the Education Project. Pupils learning about the wonderful mix of ancient and modern in St John’s Chapel. Their workshop was Creation and Creativity and focussed on the art and crafts in St Mary Redcliffe Church Creation and Creativity workshop: Pupils learning about the beautiful brasses in St Mary Redcliffe Church and doing a brass rubbing. 4
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